Tuesday 9 May 2017

April

There are some public holidays in Ireland each year. Public holidays may commemorate a special day or other event...

New Year's Day (1 January):        Sunday
New Year's Day (2 January):        MONDAY
St. Patrick's Day (17 March):        FRIDAY
Good Friday (14 April):                FRIDAY
Easter Monday (17 April):            MONDAY

First Monday in May:                   MONDAY
First Monday in June:                  MONDAY
First Monday in August:               MONDAY
Last Monday in October:              MONDAY
Christmas Day (25Dec, 2017):      MONDAY
St. Stephen's Day (26 Dec, 2016): MONDAY
New Year's Eve (31 Dec, 2016):   Saturday    

You know what this means? That of 12 days of holidays, 10 days are Monday or Friday which means that the farmers have to do the harvest... Votes in favor to change the day of harvest when it is holidays? 😀 ✋


The weather is getting better and the seedlings are growing fast. Sunshine levels are increasing and there were some good days although also there were some frost nights. 

1st polytunnel

2nd polytunnel

3rd polytunnel

Propagation polytunnel

 What have we harvested?                                                                                                          





Green garlic

Herbs

Radicchio Palla Rosa 

Calendula

Chrysanthemum flower

 What is growing?                                                                                                          


In the fields we can find...

Beans and garlic

Beans
We cleaned the brassicas' field. There are only a few purple broccoli plants with small sprouts
Purple broccoli flower
Hungry gap kale with flower
Red Russian flower



Red Russian kale
















Garlic, lettuce, spring onions
Apple flower
Apple tree

Strawberries
Potatoes

Kale
In the polytunnels are growing...

Lettuce for seeds

Buckwheat for fertilize the soil

Sunflowers
Red basil

Zucchini
Squash


Spinach and salad

The first tomatoes in the 3rd polytunnel

Peas

Lavander

Kohlrabi
Borage flower


A vine
Future grapes
THE QUEEN OF THE MUSTARDS

And in the fruit fields...





Black peppermint
 What have we sowed/ transplanted?                                                                                                

3 different soils for transplanting zucchini:









Cilantro and lettuce
Onions



 What jobs have there been on the farm?                                                                                 

Clear old crops, tidy up, chopping...





Clear brassicas field:  













Preparing the potatoes soil: 
  


Shadow working

Misty working

And more photos on the farm...                                                                                        






Misty

Woolly? Bear Caterpillar

Sanson
Hey, somebody here is hungry!

The result of  work in team!
President Higgins officially opens Cloughjordan Amphitheatre
 


THE BEST OF THE MONTH:

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